Heavy stuff: Culture of Tolerance for Police Brutality.

Time and time again demonstrations against COVID-mandates were met with police violence. The aggressive, not rarely brutal, handling of the events was a common theme.
This issue gained wider attention when in the course of a demonstration on August 1, 2021 in Berlin, a great number of incidences of police brutality were documented and reported.
The police had been explicitly instructed to proceed against protesters with a “low intervention threshold”.